It's day three thousand six hundred and fifty in the Big Brother House and Mikey's in the diary room, filing his 850 words for The Times.  read more »

Workers of the world unite! You have nothing to lose but your uncomfortable, and very possibly sexist, footwear!  read more »

Following the eclipse of Miss World as a major media event, the tendency to judge figures aspiring to global prominence on how well they fill swimwear has diminished. But not disappeared altogether.  read more »

Michael Gove announces plans for an online library of past exam papers so parents and the public can track changes in standards over time.  read more »

It's quite a big desk in the Oval Office. It needs to be. There are a hundred huge decisions every day which cross it.  read more »

In his book, Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell argues with great authority that you need to devote 10,000 hours to any activity before you can call yourself an expert.  read more »

Yes, of course, they should allow atheists on Thought for the Day. But isn't it curious that those who affect to despise religion seem so desperate to copy what the religious do?  read more »

Never mind H1N1, do you remember Y2K? The original bug that would paralyse Britain?  read more »